Basic Trope: Dressing someone up as a suitable target for a serial killer.
- Straight: The Tropersville Slasher targets young blonde female students, so Officer Alice goes undercover as a student at the local university to lure him into a trap.
- Exaggerated: Every single serial killer is trapped when they go after a whole squad of disguised officers.
- Downplayed: One of the plans enacted by the police to catch the Tropersville Slasher involves Officer Alice dressing up as his usual student prey, but it's only one of half a dozen.
- Justified: The Tropersville Slasher doesn't leave much usable evidence behind, so catching him in the act by using "bait" that can defend herself seems like the best way to catch him.
- Inverted: The Tropersville Slasher dresses up as an innocent college student to lure a victim.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: The police dress up the middle-aged Officer Alice as a young blonde college student wearing a top saying "Slasher Bait". The Tropersville Slasher falls for it anyway.
- Zigzagged: ???
- Averted: No one dresses up as a target for a serial killer.
- Enforced: In the original script, the Tropersville Slasher is caught because of some evidence he left behind, but the producers are trying to make a Poorly Disguised Pilot for one of the student characters.
- Lampshaded:Officer Bob: You want to be bait?Officer Alice: We need to catch the jerk, and I think he'll find new blonde transfer student Alice Sue Donym just irresistible.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Officers Bob and Alice plan to dress Alice up as a young blonde college student to lure the Tropersville Slasher, but Da Chief Charlie puts the kibosh on it before they can put the plan into action.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Officer Bob walks in with a criminal in handcuffs, and a few minutes later, Officer Alice walks in in clothing that's way more youthful and colorful than she usually wears.
- Played for Horror: The Tropersville Slasher is a cop, and he sets Alice up to be the bait.
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